148: Together With Friends, Family and a Grin Vacation🎇
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148: Together With Friends, Family and a Grin Vacation🎇
Dear Reader: As this calendar year of 2021 ends and a new one begins, I would like to express my gratitude to be able to contribute to a community with shared principles of fairness, economic freedom, and privacy as a human right. I wish to extend to everyone my hope that you and the ones you love may find peace and prosperity on this journey.
News
Introducing the official GrinCC website by Defistaker. This preview of ongoing work highlights a welcome design update while pulling data from the ever growing GrinCC github repo
The Grinnode Live and Grinventions teams are joining forces to bring something unexpected to the ecosystem. While reports of development are already underway the official announcement details are still to come
Anyone still on the fence about the Ipollo G1mini ASIC miner may be interested to know nhash is running decent discount with a price drop from $849 to $689 with free shipping. Reports on nhash telegram channel that discounted sales will continue through 1.15.22 or until supplies last
The push for Grins own QA stack exchange technical resource won't quit and the momentum is heating up as more community members are seeing the value of a knowledge base of past technical questions answered in a link and share database
An interesting development by cryptonagini is the newly launched Grin gitbook providing an additional knowledge base for the Grin community to contribute and share a wide range of resources
Special thanks to Grinnodelive and MCMMike for hosting the first Grin community crypto-vacation video conference where Grinners from around the world joined in to discuss ideas, views and well wishes for each other heading into this new year
Development
API verify-chain command to verify the whole chain state with full chain validation
Grin++ development update with DavidTavarez
View public wallet rewind_hash scan allowing for wallet spend and balance transparency
SOCKS5 Proxy support config development
Merged PRs: 0 in/grin | 3in/grin-wallet | 2 unique contributors
RFC
Draft
Payjoins Support by Phyro
Safe Cancel by Tromp
Early Payment Proofs by Tromp
Open
Multiple Named Wallets by Sheldonth
Multisignature Outputs by GeneFerneau
Atomic Swaps by GeneFerneau
Manual Confirmation of Transaction by DavidTavarez
Governance
In last weeks community meeting
Details with review of GrinCC website with Stakervali
Discussion of continuation of project groundskeeper work with Stakervali. Approved for 3 month contract Dec-Feb(2021/2022)
Discuss acceptability of running community sweepstakes for fun and engagement
The next bi-weekly development meeting is scheduled for Tue Jan 04 @ 15:00 UTC in grincoin#general on Keybase. You can add topics to the agenda & review past meeting notes
Artwork in this edition is from TMGOX
This newsletter is curated by StakerVali & Jank Claus. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the GRiN project
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